It’s morally satisfying to scold foreign tyrants, but does it help their victims?
In the end, it is hard to see how Justin Trudeau’s earnest entreaties to flinty dictators, or authoritarian kleptocrats, to behave more like virtuous Canadians accomplish anything for those being starved, tortured or jailed in foreign lands.
GATINEAU, QUE.—Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won widespread applause in Canada for privately unbraiding Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte for his brutal human rights abuses. This week, unsurprisingly, the abuses continue.
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